Chapter 49. If you love me, kiss me
"After learning the whole story, the B County Public Security Bureau felt very guilty that such a large criminal gang that trafficked women had gone undetected right under their noses, and that they had even had someone infiltrate their reserve police officers."
"However, the incident has already happened, and self-blame is useless. The most urgent task is to find the 300 missing people. After investigating the scene, the police found that they were obviously taken away after being drugged, but they could not find their whereabouts, whether it was surveillance cameras or entry and exit records. Nothing."
"Where were they taken? Who took them away? How could such a large scale be taken away quietly? There are still no answers to all these questions, and the case is under further investigation."
The male anchor on TV had already started reporting the next news, while Xu Jiaru was still staring at the screen with her chopsticks in her hand. The bloodstains left on the women’s bodies from the torture on TV were hard to bear even though they were blurred out, especially the dark rooms where they were imprisoned. There were only wooden planks and iron beds covered in bloodstains, and on the iron bars were ropes as thick as pythons and dog chains. Sticks, canes, garbage, and leftovers were everywhere on the ground...
For some reason, she always felt that something seemed familiar. Xu Jiaru's body trembled uncontrollably. She stared at the TV screen in horror with a pair of lifeless eyes. She felt a tightness in her chest and couldn't breathe. Those glaring scars kept reappearing in her mind, as if she had witnessed them with her own eyes. Her heart rose to her throat and beat rapidly. She slowly tightened her arms to hug her shoulders, but she still couldn't breathe.
Her face was pale, and she whispered hoarsely: "Fei, Brother Fei, I'm afraid..."
Xie Fei only took a quick look at the beginning and ate his noodles without much interest. Suddenly he heard Xu Jiaru calling him hurriedly. He looked up and saw her frightened look. He was terrified. He didn't care about anything else and held her shoulders and hugged her in his arms: "Don't be afraid, Brother Fei is here, no one can hurt you."
Xu Jiaru clutched the clothes on his chest tightly with both hands, and nestled weakly in his arms seeking a sense of security. Beads of sweat rolled down her pale face, the strands of hair on her forehead were wet, and her curled eyelashes were trembling.
Xie Fei's eyes were dark, and his handsome face was full of gloom, but his voice became softer, and the hand that patted her back was also very gentle: "Dear Jiaru, don't be afraid, Brother Fei is always by your side."
Xu Jiaru buried her face in his chest. The rapid change of mood made her a little tired. With Xie Fei's gentle comfort, her thoughts gradually became blurred, and then she fell into a coma. Except for the pair of hands that tightly grasped his clothes, her whole body leaned limply in his arms, motionless.
Xie Fei carefully carried her upstairs and gently put her on the bed. He wanted to loosen her hands that were holding his clothes, but she whined in dissatisfaction. He sighed, hugged her and lay down in the quilt together.
Her complexion had improved a lot. Xie Fei raised his hand and pushed her hair aside, revealing her smooth forehead. He took out a piece of paper and wiped away the sweat for her tenderly.
He was actually very confused. He didn't know why, even though her memory had been sealed, she seemed to be stimulated to remember some fragments. Was it because Hou Tu's seal was not thorough?
No, Hou Tu should not make such a low-level mistake. Could it be that the hurt was too great, and the fear and terror were imprinted on her soul, so that even if the memory was sealed, the soul would subconsciously feel afraid?
But... the soul in this body is clearly that soul of unknown origin. How can this be explained?
Xie Fei stared at the girl sleeping in his arms, rubbing her cheek gently with his warm fingertips, his brows furrowed, his thin lips slightly pursed, and his dark and deep eyes were filled with deep inquiry.
Who is she?
He will definitely find the answer.
Now he has more important things to do. He originally wanted to let these scums die simply after being tortured, but now it seems that he needs to be more ruthless. Thinking of this, he gently helped Xu Jiaru aside, covered her with a quilt, and quietly got up and went out.
In the study, Xie Fei sat at the table, his slender hands tapping on the keyboard. On the computer screen was a series of fast-moving codes. After a few breaths, a dialog box popped up. Xie Fei issued several commands in English slowly and steadily, and the other side responded quickly. Then Xie Fei immediately started typing out a long string of instructions with his ten fingers flying. In a moment, the dialog box disappeared, and the entire screen of codes disappeared as well. The computer returned to its original desktop background.
Meanwhile, there is a grey area far away.
A man in a black suit was making a phone call to arrange for someone to handle the matter, while staring gloomily at the order he had sent out to conduct an investigation that had fallen on deaf ears.
His face looked a little heavy, this was a master, he didn't get any data from the opponent in two fights, but the opponent could contact him easily. Even if he strengthened the design of the mechanism, improved the security protection level, and even set up many traps, he still couldn't do anything to him and could only let the opponent come and go freely.
He was a great expert and he knew very well how advanced his computer network skills were. However, in front of the other party, he was like a kitten showing off in front of a tiger. He couldn't help but frown.
After thinking for a moment, he curled his lips and smiled again. It didn't matter who the other party was or how capable he was. Anyway, he was taking money and doing things for them. He just didn't know how those farmers in the mountains had offended him that he had to torture them like this without even giving them a quick death. Fortunately, he had no grudge against him. He had to be careful when serving such a rich, powerful and ruthless person.
In the dark and narrow corridor, a group of people were whimpering and howling one after another as they crawled forward on the ground. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
There were long trails of blood on the ground as they crawled. They were from their hands that were severed at the root. The flesh on their hands was turned inside out and they were simply bandaged with a piece of cloth. Blood was constantly oozing out of them. Their clothes were tattered and stuck tightly to their bloody bodies. Their disheveled hair covered their shattered faces - some people had a patch of hair missing, and one could even see their bloody scalps. Some people had parts of their ears cut off by a sharp blade, and blood was dripping down their cheeks to the ground. Some people's eyes were gouged out, leaving only two dark, bottomless blood pits, and under their eyes were two dried crimson bloodstains.
A cracked nose, a broken chin, knife scars so deep that the bone was visible...there was no good part of them. Apart from being able to tell the difference between men, women, young and old, it was impossible to tell who was who.
Their necks were tied with thick dog chains, and next to them were burly, dark, masked men who were whipping them with whips and urging them to crawl faster. The men licked their mouths bloodthirstily, their eyes were extremely cold and emotionless, as if the people crawling forward and about to die tragically at their feet were just a group of livestock.
An unknown amount of time had passed, but amid the screams of the crowd and the beatings and scolding of the strong man, they came to a spacious room. The room had walls on three sides and only one side was made of dark, reflective glass. Dim light shone through it, and they could see shadowy figures moving around.
There were three large iron cages against the wall in the room. The strong men pried open the mouths of this group of people and stuffed a pill into them. Then they were arbitrarily driven into an iron cage and locked it. After the strong men finished doing everything, they left.
The people of Zhao Village sat in the iron cage in a daze, with no expression on their broken faces. At this moment, the other side of the iron cage suddenly opened, and the roar of a wild beast came from afar. They looked over in astonishment, their pupils widened, and a sturdy tiger slowly walked out from there.
The reflective glass slowly fell down, gradually revealing people wearing various masks. They were looking at the cages excitedly. A voice came to their ears: "Welcome all distinguished guests. There are only two minutes left before betting. There are two tigers in the cage on the left, three ferocious wolves in the cage in the middle, and two lions in the cage on the right. They have been hungry for three days, and the people in the cages have taken stimulants. In this confrontation between humans and animals, who is the real winner?!"
The crowd suddenly became excited: "Tiger, Tiger!"
"Lion, it must be a lion, come on!"
"Wolf, my wolf, I'm all yours!"
"Let's wait and see. Three, two, one, game on!"
As soon as the words fell, the people of Zhao Village had no time to digest the news before the beasts bared their fangs and pounced on them. They screamed and cried, and fled everywhere. However, soon their heads began to get excited, commanding their bodies to pounce on the beasts. Screams and the sound of beasts chewing bones could be heard from the cages, and blood spurted out of the cages.
A brutal fight.
Listening to the spine-numbing screams and watching the blood spurting everywhere, the nobles on the other side of the wall opened their bloodthirsty eyes and roared fiercely: "Come on, come on! Wolves, charge! The prey is right in front of us!"
"Go ahead, tiger, tear him apart, bite his neck, bite!"
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On one side there was a fierce life-and-death struggle with blood all over the place, and on the other side there were excited nobles roaring and cheering. The extremely strong contrast was chilling, but these nobles with twisted minds watched with great gusto.
There were fewer and fewer people, and the cages were full of broken limbs and debris. The remaining ones were all young and strong men. They stared at the beasts with bloodshot and excited eyes. The extreme pain and fear could not control their irrational brains. They were like puppets, just wanting to fight them to the death. The beasts, with their bloodstained bodies swung, their piercing eyes locked on their targets, and walked towards the remaining prey step by step...
After an unknown amount of time, there was gradually no life in the cage, no more screams, and only the wild beasts were seen lying in the cage, picking at and biting their prey. The trainer pushed the door open to check, and soon gave a report - no one survived, the two tigers were slightly injured, one of the three wolves had a limp, one had a broken tail, and one of the two lions was blind.
The winning nobles cheered and went to exchange money, and the man who received the full video sent it to the website provided by Xie Fei as agreed.
The missing person case of Zhaocun, which had caused a sensation in the country but still had no clue, suddenly made progress at 4 a.m. A video swept the entire Chinese Internet. The police immediately arranged people to control the spread, destroy the video, and find out the source of the video, but there was no progress.
The families of the abducted victims forwarded the message to thank the people who punished the traffickers, and expressed indignation: It’s good that the traffickers died, and the whole village should die because of the traffickers!
The country attached great importance to this matter and immediately dispatched computer website experts to control it. The video was finally taken down and the source deleted 20 hours after it was circulated. However, the scenes in it had already been engraved in the hearts of the audience.
Shortly after this video was removed from the shelves, suddenly, many people who had been abducted and whose whereabouts were still unknown were quietly dropped off at the entrance of the police station, along with a letter begging for mercy, promising not to abduct women and children anymore.
The culprit of this mysterious case of the disappearance of human traffickers in Zhao Village was never found, so the case came to an end and people attributed it to retribution for their sins. Since then, although there are still human traffickers, they are no longer a major issue.
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